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Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Limited Editions Club (stated). This copy is VG; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for previous owner's name on fep; binding is tight but slight wear on edges. No jacket, the cover are also VG; intact, including very good color and design, but liquid stains on spine, slight wear on corners. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We ship all books to U.S. buyers with Delivery Confirmation. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES
Seller: NightsendBooks, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xv, [3], 294, [2] pages. No dust jacket present. Slight wear and soiling. Format is mostly two columns per page. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Sixteen Lithographs by Miguel Covarrubias. The four page The Heritage Club Sandglass Number Ix:26 laid in, text relates to this book. Miguel Covarrubias, also known as José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (22 November 1904 â" 4 February 1957) was a Mexican painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist and art historian. Miguel's artwork and celebrity caricatures have been featured in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines. The linear nature of his drawing style was highly influential to other caricaturists such as Al Hirschfeld. Miguel's first book of caricatures The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans was a hit, though not all his subjects were thrilled that his sharp, pointed wit was aimed at them. He counted many notables among his friends including Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and W.C. Handy for whom he also illustrated books. Miguel's caricatures of the jazz clubs were the first of their kind printed in Vanity Fair. He managed to capture the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance in much of his work as well as in his book, Negro Drawings. He did not consider these caricatures, but serious drawings of people, music and a culture he loved. Covarrubias also did illustrations for George Macy, the publisher of The Limited Editions Club, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, Green Mansions, Herman Melville's Typee, and Pearl Buck's All Men Are Brothers. Heritage Press, the sister organization of The Limited Editions Club, reprinted unsigned editions. Raymond Melbourne Weaver (1888 - April 4, 1948) was a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1916-1948, and a literary scholar best known for publishing Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic, the first full biography of American author Herman Melville (1819-1891) in 1921 and editing Melville's works. Weaver's scholarly credentials, training, and persuasiveness were important in launching the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s that brought Melville from obscurity to wide recognition. Weaver was an influential teacher. He published a novel, wrote introductions for editions of American fiction, book reviews, and literary essays, but never published another scholarly book after his book on Melville. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and became best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day. George Macy founded the Limited Editions Club, publishing finely illustrated books that were limited to 1500 copies and signed by the author or artist. By setting up a subscription service, Macy was able to work with a larger budget for subscribers. In 1935, he expanded his publishing with The Heritage Press. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War". Stowe wrote the novel to depict the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery. The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve. In the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. The influence attributed to the book was so great that a likely apocryphal story arose of Abraham Lincoln meeting Stowe at the start of the Civil War and declaring, "So this is the little lady who started this great war. The novel remains a "landmark" in protest literature, with later books such as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson owing a large debt to it. Special Edition by the George Macy Companies, Inc.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. The Limited Editions Club, 1938.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1938. Numbered 514 of 1500 copies and signed by the illustrator. Marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and gold spine titles; mild wear; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; slipcase has some surface tears at base of spine, cracked along back edge; bookplate removed from free front endpaper; text in columns; interior is unmarked; 294 pages. Additional shipping charges may be required due to the size and weight of book.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Limited Editions Clud, 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1938 Limited Editions Club issue #452 of 1500 signed by illustrator Miguel Covarrubias. Three quarter leather over marbled boards in slipcase. Leather on spine dried. oversized and overweight. A76 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #948/1500, signed by the noted illustrator Miguel Covarrubias who created the stone lithographs. The grey custom printed slipcase is darkened with age and scratched, bottom panel is missing, edges worn and tearing. Bound in marbled paper and burgundy morocco spine and corners. The edges and corners are rubbed, spine chipped at tail, wear on edges, scratch in bottom fifth. Edges are marbled in the same pattern as the boards. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition. Copy 891 of 1500; SIGNED by Miguel Covarrubias on colophon; w/ orig. slipcase; glassine cover paper torn; text unmarked; no bent/torn pp; boards fine
Seller: Harmonium Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, xv, [3], 294pp, [6]. Publisher's quarter red morocco, marbled boards. Light wear to spine. Includes the publisher's slipcase, shelf wear, ring mark on one side, title printed in blue on spine. From a limited edition of 1500 copies, this is number 592, signed by Miguel Covarrubias.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED by illus. Miguel Covarrubius, limited #541 of 1500 copies. Marbled boards, leather spine and tips, lightly worn. Top spine ragged. No slipcase.; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches; 294 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, xv, 294 pages. In Very Good condition. Half binding of marbled paper boards and burgundy leather, with gilt lettering on spine. Housed in publisher's Very Good minus cardboard slipcase. Minor shelf wear. Light rubbing to leather on spine. Marbled pattern to edges of text block. Interior pages clean. Signed flat by Covarrubias on limitation page. Shelved in Room A. 1371421. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition. Copy #1262 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist Miguel Covarrubias on the colophon. Near fine in 1/4 morocco & marbled boards enclosed in a very good only publisher's slipcase. (Leather on spine lightly faded) Features 16 full-page lithographs and the title-page vignette & colophon vignette by Miguel Covarrubias. Printed at the Harbor Press in New York.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in half brown morocco with morocco corners and marbled boards. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Copy #1377 of 1500 copies illustrated with 16 powerful lithographs drawn on the stone by Miguel Covarrubias and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Spine pleasantly sunned. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some tape repairs
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: 294 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 622 of 1500 copies signed by Covarrubias in red ink. Introduction by Raymond weaver, illustrated with 16 full page lithographs by Covarrubias. Printed by the Harbor Press. Interior contents crisp and fresh. Three quarter dull red morocco and marbled boards. Slight spine fade. Near fine in very good gray slipcase, spine darkened
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed by illustrator. Copy number 721 of 1500 copies made for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Publisher's half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, all edges marbled. One volume in grey slipcase.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in half brown morocco with morocco corners and marbled boards; 348 pages. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. One of 1500 copies illustrated with 16 powerful lithographs drawn on the stone by Miguel Covarrubias and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Mild sunning to spine and very faint rubbing to spine tips and fore-edge of slip case. Just about Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Uncommon thus
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.